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Splunk offers a free version with a 500 MB per day indexing limit, which means you can only add 500 MB amount of new data for indexing per day. This might work for most home users, the only problem is the first time you install Splunk, you might configure it to injest your existing log files which most likely are above 500 MB if you consolidate your logs in a syslog server like I do. In this case, Splunk will stop indexing any data above 500 MB per day. During first time indexing, make sure your existing data or log files are below this limit. If for some reason, you ask Splunk to injest way more than 500 MB of data and you want to start fresh, run the following command to clean up the data –